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See Connie Perkin's Dowdy XChange Website for more Kentucky data Kentucky Marriages (1851-1900) MARTIN, FORSTER m. DOWDY, SARAH ANN 02 Sep 1875 Marshall KY
Calaway County Bedford TN Will Abstracts Filed 5 July 1858 Will of Thomas Cheatham pg 155 and 162. B.F. Duggan, exec. "Left no children. Heirs are brothers and sisters and Gentry family heirs and others." (surnames mentioned and counties): Perry and Gentry all of Bedford Co TN, McCurdy of Grand Co MO, Gibson Dawdy and wife Nancy of Calaway Co KY. Stanfield of Maury Co TN. Gillespie fo Benton Co TN, Taylor of Weakley Co TN. Taylor of Rutherford Co TN. Crawford of Pontetoc MS. Gentry of Randolph Co Arkansas. (note: Bedford TN is the location for the New Jersey Howell DAWDY family (and they drive me nuts showing up in locations with DOWDYS)...but there is a will which includes Gibson DAWDY of Calaway Kentucky...so I think he's one of "ours".?????? ) Fulton Co KY Dowdy graveyard in a field near Cayce, Fulton County, KY. Court Records 1845 May 13 Court pg 4.- Ordered Theopolis Brown to survey the state line foard from Hickman to Feliciana. Hands allowee: [surnames include] McGehee, Lewis, Menees, Champion, Roper, Silas Dowdy, Fleming, Newton, Easley, Bradley, Cochran, Smith, Combs, Tyler, Hines, Barnes, Baldridge, McGrew to keep the road in good order. 1845 Court pg 12 - Ordered G I Irvine...road beginning at Everett Miles Blacksmith shop and ending at SW corner of Jonathan Lewis' farm Hands allowed: [surnames include] Palsgrove, Cook, Alexander, Bransford, Kimberland, George Dowdy and hands Lewis Dowdy, B. Dowdy, Hammonds, Miles, Roper to keep road in good order. 1845 Court pg 18 - ...for road to be established from W.S. Alexander to near Asa W. Clarks...to go over land of W.S. Alexander, Henry Carter, C.M. Dowdy, John F O'Dell, Francis Ragun, Andrew Shuck, John D. Henry, A. McDaniel, Taverner M. Carr, Noah Norman...summons to report for not proceeding with road. 1845 Court pg 26 - W S Alexander, John D Henry, A McDaniel, C M Dowdy, John M Carr, Noah Norman and Francis Ragan did not appear to show cause for not building road. It is ordered that road opened. 1845 Court pg 27 - Ordered John F O'Dell to cut out road near Wm Alexanders thence to Asa Clarks with a 30 foot width. Hands: ...[list]...George Dowdy and hands, ...C. M. Dowdy... 1845 Sept Court pg 35. 9 Sept 1845 - Ordered survey the new road lies between Troy Road and east corner of F. Ragans land. Hands: [surnames] Alexander, McConnell, John and Wm Carter, C.M. Dowdy, White , O'Dell 1846 June Court pg 60 - town of Hickman, Fulton Co. B T Davis, A. Dowdy, Mr Edwards, S P McClellan, Robt McClellan, John McClellan, James Ayres, Arthur Ayres, Geo Dobson, A S Dobson, Wm Mahan, Harvey Justin, J T Atterberry, I Menees, F Tittsworth, J W Manees, B Manees, N Scearce, Wm Long, J Richmond and hands of Wm Harper, John Parks, Wm Irvin, John F Irvin, and Jackson Dowdy Fulton KY 1846 Tax List Book 1 Fulton KY 1850 Census Lewis Dowdy 21 TN, living in HH of Salem P. McClelland (note:
wife was Bethinia Dowdy 33 TN), pg 137A Fulton KY 1860 Census Martha Dowdy 62 NC, Delilah Roper 46 KY, Joseph Roper 21 KY, JOhn J Roper 17 KY, Samuel W Roper14 KY, Louisa A Roper12 KY History of the Bayou de Chien Farm Graves Co KY History of Kentucky, By Charles Kerr, William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter CHARLES L. DOWDY. During a comparatively brief career
of a little more than twenty years Charles L. Dowdy has connected
himself with some of the most substantial interests of Graves
County, is a large farm and property owner, and has a thriving
real estate and coal business at Mayfield. His ancestry were
Irish, Colonial settlers of Virginia, in which state his grandfather,
Joseph Dowdy, was born in 1806. As a young man he came West and
acquired a pioneer farm in Graves County, Kentucky, where he
spent his active life as a farmer. He died in 1895. He married
in Graves County Miss Leechman. John Dowdy, father of Charles
L. Dowdy, was born in Graves County in 1838 and died at Mayfield
in 1915. He spent practically all his life in Graves County,
for many years carried on extensive interests as a farmer and
stock raiser, but after 1905 lived retired at Mayfield. He was
a democrat and a working member of the Baptist Church. His wife
was Donie Payne, who was born in Graves County in 1847 and died
at Mayfield in 1913. Their children have all found roles of usefulness
: Kurb, a tobacco dealer at Mayfield ; Mittie, wife of Simpson
Erwin, who is employed in the tobacco business at Mayfield ;
Thomas, foreman in a tobacco warehouse at Mayfield ; Roll, a
tobacco merchant at Paducah ; Hanie, Wife of Charles Griffin,
a Graves County farmer ; Zettie, unmarried and living at Mayfield
; Clifton, foreman in a tobacco plant at Mayfield ; Charles L.
; and Dell, in the confectionery business at Dawson Springs,
Kentucky. Charles L. Dowdy was born in Graves County June 20,
1885, acquired a rural school education, and at the age of fifteen
moved to Mayfield and for eight years was employed as clerk in
a local grocery house. With that training and with a limited
capital he entered the coal and real estate business, and along
those lines most of his energies have been directed ever since.
He has developed, a large coal business, with yards on West Broadway,
and probably handles as much coal in a year as any other individual
in Western Kentucky outside of Paducah. Both with his own property
and as a broker he does an extensive real estate business, with
offices in the T. P. Smith Building, opposite the courthouse.
The owner of much valuable real estate in Mayfield, he has an
attractive and tasteful home on West Broadway. He gives much
of his time to the direct supervision of his farms, which include
one of 165 acres two and a half miles south of Mayfield, another
of 120 acres six miles north, and one of sixty acres ten miles
north. Mr. Dowdy is a public-spirited citizen and for six years
was a member of the City Council and in the fall of 1919 was
candidate for mayor, being defeated by fifty-four votes. His
name and good work were associated with all efforts of the county
organization to raise funds and promote the efficiency of the
Government during the World war. He is a democrat, a member of
the Christian Church, and is affiliated with Mavfield Lodge No.
151, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mayfield Lodge No. 565
of the Elks, Mayfield Camp No. 11651, Modern Woodmen of America,
and also with the Woodmen of the World. He is a director in the
Young Men's Building and Loan Association, which has a capital
of $1,750,000. Jennie Hamilton, daughter of Ferd and Rosa (Woolen)
Hamilton, the former now deceased. Her mother is living at St.
Louis, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Dowdy have three children: Charles
Weldon, born in 1909, Herbert Dean, born in 1914, and Rose Nell,
born in 1917. Hickman Co KY Deeds 1830 Dec 25 DB-A pg 320 - Drury Smith to George Dowdy both of Hickman KY $600 a certain tract where both Smith and Dowdy is both now living, It being NE quarter of Section 35 Twp 1 Range 4W, 160 ac Bounded by on South Austin S. Tylers land which is a part of same section, W by Adrian Owens and Jerimiah ____, North by Moses Brown and East by Wm Hammonds. Wit: Wm C. Dowdy, Chiles Dowdy. Signed Drury Smith, Lucy Smith, wife 1835 Apr 10 DB-C pg 81 - A.S. Tyler to William C. Dowdy 126 ac Southeast quarter of Section 35, Township 1 Range 4W. Witness: Allen Dowdy, George Dowdy (full text of this deed at DowdyXChange website) Hickman Co Marriages S.P. McClellan m. Bethunia Dowdy 29 Mar 1838 Hickman Co 1840 Census Alfred Dowdey - 2 2 0 0 1 ...- 0 1 1 0 1 ... Graves Co KY Marriages Graves Co 1830 Census Micajah Dowdy Jr - 2 1 2 0 1 ... - 1 2 1 0 0 1... Graves Co 1840 Census Joseph Dowdy - 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 ...- 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 ... Graves Co 1841 Tax (all book 1) Benjamin Dowdy - no land taxed, 1 0 0 0 (m+21, slaves +16,
slaves total, children 7-17) Graves Co 1850 Census Allen Dowdey 38 NC, Elizabeth 17 TN, Delila 16 TN, Mary 15 KY, Nancy 8 KY, Sarah 6 KY, Mariah 1 KY, Carroll 13 KY, Zachariah 11, KY, Benjamin 10 KY pg363B B.H. Dowdy 34 TN, Susan 34 TN, Martha 4 KY, Sarah C 2 KY, M.F. 5/12 KY, G.N. 7 KY pg 370A Joseph Dowdey 47 NC (likely not correct), Mary 60 NC, Nancy 27 TN, Cynthia 19 TN, Eveline 17 TN, John 23 TN pg 389B J.F. Dowdey 27 TN, Jane 27 KY, Dulusia 9/12 KY, John 3 KY, W.L. 1 KY, Ellen Leachman 45 KY, pg 390A Joel Dowdy (likely Joab)64 NC, Sally 40 NC, Lydia 35 NC, Polly 36 NC, Rebeccah 34 NC, pg 396A Thomas Dowdy 32 NC, Nancy 32 NC, Rachael 28 NC, Ann 25 NC, Catherine 8 KY, Elizabeth 5 KY, Joab 3 KY, Thomas 1 KY, pg 396A Joab Dowdy Jr 24 NC, Mary 20 KY, pg 396A Russell County KY Captain Rufus Dowdy (source: Flowers Family History
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